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Sunday 11 April 1982Men’s majorsYear in Review

Stadler wins Masters

Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia · Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 April 1982 · purse $367,152 · winner's share $64,000

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

12 h 42 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 64° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R113°/7°C · wind 16 km/h E, gusts 38 · 2.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R220°/5°C · wind 23 km/h WNW, gusts 51 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R317°/6°C · wind 11 km/h NE, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R422°/8°C · wind 19 km/h NW, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. Masters

1934–2026 in our record, 90 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

, 47 (cut at 154) made it

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Men's major

Masters

Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Craig Stadler

284Total
−4To par
playoff: sudden death; beat Dan Pohl; Stadler par; Pohl bogey (missed par putt)Margin
PlayoffDecided

Runner-up: Dan Pohl

The golfer

b. 1953-06-02, San Diego, California, USA; United States; age 28 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Craig Stadler’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet